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SVK::Command::Log(3)                 User Contributed Perl Documentation                SVK::Command::Log(3)



NAME
       SVK::Command::Log - Show log messages for revisions

SYNOPSIS
        log DEPOTPATH
        log PATH
        log -r N[:M] [DEPOT]PATH

OPTIONS
        -r [--revision] ARG      : ARG (some commands also take ARG1:ARG2 range)

                                 A revision argument can be one of:

                                 "HEAD"       latest in repository
                                 NUMBER       revision number
                                 NUMBER@      interpret as remote revision number
                                 NUM1:NUM2    revision range

                                 Unlike other commands,  negative NUMBER has no
                                 meaning.

        -l [--limit] REV       : stop after displaying REV revisions
        -q [--quiet]           : Don't display the actual log message itself
        -x [--cross]           : track revisions copied from elsewhere
        -v [--verbose]         : print extra information
           --xml               : display the log messages in XML format
           --filter FILTER     : select revisions based on FILTER
           --output FILTER     : display logs using the given FILTER

DESCRIPTION
       Display the log messages and other meta-data associated with revisions.

       SVK provides a flexible system allowing log messages and other revision properties to be displayed
       and processed in many ways.  This flexibility comes through the use of "log filters."  Log filters
       are of two types: selection and output.  Selection filters determine which revisions are included in
       the output, while output filters determine how the information about those revisions is displayed.
       Here's a simple example.  These two invocations produce equivalent output:

           svk log -l 5 //local/project
           svk log --filter "head 5" --output std //local/project

       The "head" filter chooses only the first revisions that it encounters, in this case, the first 5
       revisions.  The "std" filter displays the revisions using SVK's default output format.

       Selection filters can be connected together into pipelines.  For example, to see the first 3
       revisions with log messages containing the string 'needle', we might do this

           svk log --filter "grep needle | head 3" //local/project

       That example introduced the "grep" filter.  The argument for the grep filter is a valid Perl pattern
       (with any '|' characters as '\|' and '\' as '\\').  A revision is allowed to continue to the next
       stage of the pipeline if the revision's log message matches the pattern.  If we wanted to search only
       the first 10 revisions for 'needle' we could use either of the following commands

           svk log --filter "head 10 | grep needle" //local/project
           svk log -l 10 --filter "grep needle" //local/project

       You may change SVK's default output filter by setting the SVKLOGOUTPUT environment.  See svk help
       environment for details.

       Standard Filters

       The following log filters are included with the standard SVK distribution:

           Selection : grep, head, author
           Output    : std, xml

       For detailed documentation about any of these filters, try "perldoc SVK::Log::Filter::Name" where
       "Name" is "Grep", "Head", "XML", etc.. Other log filters are available from CPAN
       <http://search.cpan.org by searching for "SVK::Log::Filter".  For details on writing log filters,
       see the documentation for the SVK::Log::Filter module.



perl v5.8.8                                      2007-03-14                             SVK::Command::Log(3)